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<title>OpenBSD/pegasos</title>
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<meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/pegasos page">
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<h2 id=OpenBSD>
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<a href="index.html">
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<i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
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pegasos
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<hr>
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<table><tr><td>
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<p>
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OpenBSD/pegasos used to run on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
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<strong>The OpenBSD/pegasos port was discontinued after the 3.5 release.</strong>
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</table>
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<hr>
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<h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>
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<p>
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The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when
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<a href="http://www.genesi.lu">Genesi</a> contacted
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Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard.
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After several months of hiatus, with the release of the Pegasos II pending,
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Dale Rahn was hired by Genesi to revive the port.
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Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
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The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work
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was terminated at the end of February 2004 due to lack of payment on the part
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of Genesi.
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They claimed to have used up all of the company funding and were over 3 months
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behind in payment, 'We will get a big contract/sale any day'.
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At that point it was no longer possible for the developer to live without
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payment, so he stopped active work on pegasos and searched for other employment.
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<p>
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A few weeks later a second batch of Pegasos II boards were due to be shipped,
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with a new version of firmware.
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After some convincing, a version of the new firmware was finally acquired.
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This new firmware would not boot OpenBSD.
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<p>
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bPlan, who builds the boards and writes the Open Firmware, was contacted.
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While they responded to the initial inquiry, they never resolved the booting
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issue.
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In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were
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ignored.
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<p>
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At that point the hardware was released, with no additional information,
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it was presumed that the new Pegasos II boards would not boot OpenBSD.
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<p>
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Finally, due to the inability to work with bPlan/Genesi and the
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fact they owed the developer over 3 months pay,
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it was announced that pegasos support would be dropped.
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The code was not removed until later because it was too close to OpenBSD 3.5
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release and would disrupt that process.
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<hr>
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<h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>
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Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the
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OpenBSD source tree.
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Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards were supported.
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However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface was not supported,
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documentation was never made available.
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<p>
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The boards could be used with either VGA (AGP or PCI) graphics console,
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or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a VGA card is
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present or missing, with firmware settings.
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<hr>
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<h3 id="problems">Known Problems</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>The parties involved with the building and sale of the Pegasos boards
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appear to not be financially sound enough or trustworthy enough to merit
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further development.
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</ul>
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